Continuing on in Shemoneh Esrei… The second berakhah is Birkhas Gevuros. We already suggested one way to view the word Gevurah.

As we said in Birkhas Avos, we receive from Hashem in four ways, and two of them stand in contrast — “haGadol vehaGibbor” (“the Great One and the Mighty One”), or alternatively: “Gomeil chassadim tovim veQonei hakol” (“Who supports us through Acts of lovingkindness, and Who Made / Owns / Repairs everything”). The contrast being that of sab”eiu miTuvekha vesamcheinu biyshu’asekha — satisfy us through Your Good and give us joy with Your redemption.” “Good” talks about things going well. “Redemption” speaks of Hashem allowing us our individuality even if it means things going awry, and making sure everything turns out as it should in the end.

Gevurah is the strength to not step in when chassidim would not be tovim. To help rather than smother. Tzimtzum. Anavah.

Which is consistent with our current berakhah. IF you assume rain is somehow an act of Yeshu’ah rather than Tov. But the rest of the berakhah appears quite clear.

It begins and opens with reviving the dead, which is perhaps the pinnacle in letting us live within nature, but ultimately bringing yeshu’ah.

The bit about rain, dew, if you say the latter, which I admit is a difficulty.

• מְכַלְכֵּל חַיִּים בְּחֶֽסֶד – He divvies out life with lovingkindness: but, as we just said, not infinite lifespans…
• מְחַיֵּה מֵתִים בְּרַחֲמִים רַבִּים – revives the dead with much Compassion
• סוֹמֵךְ נוֹפְ֒לִים – supports the downfallen
• וְרוֹפֵא חוֹלִים – heals the sick
• וּמַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים – frees captives
• וּמְקַיֵּם אֱמוּנָתוֹ לִישֵׁנֵי עָפָר – and fulfills His Trust to those who sleep in the earth.

The body of the berakhah is indeed a list of yeshu’os from times of trouble.

The line before the close of a berakhah summarized the body and connects it to the close. The term is that it must be “me’ein hachasimah — sharing the same appearance as the close. Which in this case reads:

מִי כָמֽוֹךָ בַּֽעַל גְּבוּרוֹת וּמִי דּֽוֹמֶה לָּךְ
מֶֽלֶךְ מֵמִית וּמְחַיֵּה וּמַצְמִֽיחַ יְשׁוּעָה:

Who is like You, the Master of Gevuros, and who is [even] similar to you?
The King Who causes death and causes life and causes yeshu’ah to blossom!

The emphasis here is not that we thank Hashem for having the lives we wanted for ourselves. Because that would include the chassdim that are not tovim.

Rather we are praising Him from the faith that everything else we go through will ultimately serve us better than had we gotten what we wanted.